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Buying sex isn’t some sort of uniquely bad transaction. It is selling labor for survival. It is comparable to trading any other form of labor under capitalism. Because that’s what it is: labor under capitalism
The problem is capitalism and how sex workers are treated under it
The problem is capitalism and how sex workers are treated under it
One of the reasons why SW-client discourse needs to expand beyond “cis man sees woman” is this: we can better dissect the various labor relations between a sex worker and their client when it’s mapped on to non-cishet dynamics. “Trans woman sees cis woman” is VERY different
Every sex working woman I talk to about this says the same thing: I wish I saw more women. Something is going on there. It complicates how we think abt clients & how we think abt trading sex. Rather, that SW-client relations discourse is usually abt SW-cis male client relations
I really dislike how this is treated as the universal truth. Because as someone w/ clients who are primarily trans & cis women & nb folks, I have a very different relationship with my clients. It feels VERY unfair to map "predatory client purchases sex" onto them. It doesn't work
Which goes back to my main point, which is this:
What is uniquely bad about doing sex work is how it is treated under capitalism, how there are no labor rights, how it is so highly stigmatized while being the final safety net people can fall to if they have nothing else.
What is uniquely bad about doing sex work is how it is treated under capitalism, how there are no labor rights, how it is so highly stigmatized while being the final safety net people can fall to if they have nothing else.
Specifically honing in on buying sex is missing the forest for the trees. It's about the context and conditions with which that purchase happens. It's about who is purchasing sex and who has power, who will leverage it, and why.
This is why so many sex workers support UBI.
This is why so many sex workers support UBI.
The conditions we think abt sex work cannot be separated from the assumptions we have abt how it's traded. When those assumptions are challenged, when we're forced to consider all the different ways sex actually is traded, that's when we start to see the common issue: capitalism
So no, I don't think buying sex is any worse than buying a talk session with a therapist.
I do, however, think the labor conditions sex workers are forced to work -- due to criminalization, due to stigma, for survival when they don't want to do it -- are of immediate concern
I do, however, think the labor conditions sex workers are forced to work -- due to criminalization, due to stigma, for survival when they don't want to do it -- are of immediate concern
